Welcome to SurveyMonkey's weekly update on President Donald Trump's job approval rating. Our surveys track the percentage of Americans who approve and disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president, and we post weekly results here every Thursday. Details on the latest results, past findings and our methods follow below.

This week (September 13-19), 44 percent of Americans approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president (a one point increase) and 54 percent disapprove (a one point decrease). SurveyMonkey’s tracking has shown Trump's approval falling within the range of 43 to 45 percent for the past eleven weeks.

The most recent SurveyMonkey online poll was conducted September 13 through September 19, 2018 among a national sample of 20,492 adults. Respondents for this survey were selected from more than 2 million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day. Data were weighted for age, race, sex, education, and geography using the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to reflect the demographic composition of the United States. The modeled error estimate for this survey is plus or minus 1 percentage point.

September 6-12: This week, 43 percent of Americans approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president (no change from the previous week) and 55 percent disapprove (a one point increase). SurveyMonkey’s tracking has shown Trump's approval falling within the range of 43 to 45 percent for the past ten weeks.

August 23-39: Unchanged from the previous week, 44 percent of Americans approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president this week, and 55 percent disapprove (a one point increase). Based on SurveyMonkey’s tracking since early April, Trump’s current approval continues to fall within the range over the past several months -- 44 to 46 percent. It has registered at 44 percent for four of the past six weeks.

August 9-15, 2018: Up a point from the previous week, 45 percent of Americans approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president this week, and 52 percent disapprove. Based on SurveyMonkey’s tracking since early April, Trump’s current approval falls within the range over the past several months -- 44 to 46 percent.

August 2-8, 2018 - Unchanged from last week, 44 percent of Americans approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president this week, and 54 percent disapprove. Based on SurveyMonkey’s tracking since early April, Trump’s current approval falls within the range over the past several months—44 to 46 percent.

July 19-25, 2018 - This week, 43 percent of Americans approve of the way President Donald Trump is handling his job as president, and 55 percent disapprove, a one-point tick down in approval and up in disapproval since the previous week. While the one-week change remains well within the typical range of random error, this week’s result represents a three percentage point decline from 46 percent over the past four weeks and Trump’s lowest approval rating since April. Trump’s approval rating had varied between 44 and 46 percent from early April until last week.

July 5-11, 2018 - This week, 45 percent of Americans approve of the way President Donald Trump is handling his job as president, and 53 percent disapprove, a one-point tick down in approval and up in disapproval since the previous week. Trump approval had varied between 44 and 45 percent for the previous twelve weeks before that. Trump's strong approval rating has continued a gradual increase in recent weeks, rising to 28 percent the last two weeks from a range of 26 to 27 percent from mid-may through June and from 24 to 25 percent from March through May. Nearly all of the increase in strong approval comes from Republicans and independents who lean Republican.

June 21-27, 2018 - Despite an increased focus on immigration over the past two weeks, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating is unchanged. 44 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, and 54 percent disapprove, the same as the previous week. Trump approval has varied between 44 and 45 percent for the past twelve weeks.

June 14-20, 2018 - After five consecutive unchanged weeks, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating ticked down, but remains within the random sampling range of where it has been for months. This week, 44 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, a one point decrease, and 54 percent disapprove, a two-point upturn. Approval has previously been unchanged at 45 percent for five weeks, but has varied between 44 and 45 percent for the past eleven.

May 31-June 6, 2018 - According to this week’s tracking poll, 45 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, unchanged from the previous week, and 53 percent disapprove, up one point. The approval percentage has now stood at 45 percent for four consecutive weeks, and varied between 44 and 45 percent over the past nine weeks.

May 17-23, 2018 - According to this week’s tracking poll, 45 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, unchanged from the previous week, and 53 percent disapprove, a one point uptick. The approval percentage has varied between 44 and 45 percent over the past seven weeks, and between 43 and 45 percent since the second week of March.

May 3-9, 2018 - President Donald Trump’s job approval clicked down a point, but remains near the level measured over the past two months. According to this week’s tracking poll, 44 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, a one percentage point decline from the previous week, and 54 percent disapprove a one point increase. The approval percentage has varied between 44 and 45 percent over the past five weeks, and between 43 and 45 percent since the second week of March.

April 12-18, 2018 - President Donald Trump’s job approval rating remains stable. According to this week’s SurveyMonkey tracking poll, 44 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, and 54 percent disapprove. Trump’s rating was exactly the same the previous week. His approval percentage has been either 43 or 44 percent for six consecutive weeks and has varied within the range of 42 to 44 percent for all but one week since January.

March 29-April 4, 2018 - President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has remained highly stable for the past three weeks. For the week of March 29 to April 4, 43 percent of Americans approve of the way President Donald Trump is handling his job as president, and 55 percent disapprove, according to the latest SurveyMonkey tracking poll. The approval percentage has ticked down one point, while the disapproval percentage remains unchanged. The president’s approval rating has varied within the range of 42 to 44 percent since late December.

March 15-21, 2018 - 43 percent of Americans approve of the way President Donald Trump is handling his job as president, and 54 percent disapprove, according to the latest SurveyMonkey tracking poll. These results are virtually identical to the previous week; approval ticked down a point (from 44 percent) and disapproval remained unchanged. Although we see slight variation from week to week, the president’s approval rating has mostly varied within the range of 42 to 44 percent since late December.

March 1-7, 2018 - President Trump's overall job approval rating dropped just one percentage point (from 43% to 42%) over the past week, but following comments about gun control and tariffs, his strong approval dropped by two points (from 24% to 22%) with the biggest declines among conservative Republicans (-6) and white non-college men (-6).

February 8-14, 2018 - President Trump's job approval rating has been slightly higher in recent weeks — 43 percent this week and varying mostly between 42 and 44 percent since late December. Averaging results shows Trump gaining 4 points on his rating among Republicans and Republican leaners since the Fall, 2 points among non-leaning independents, but no change among Democrats.

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December 14-20, 2017 - As 2017 drew to a close, we rolled-up 602,134 interviews conducted over the year to dig deeper into the trends in President Trump's approval rating. These data showed Trump’s numbers — which had declined steadily for the first half of the year before leveling off — taking a slight turn for the worse in the final weeks of 2017. The week's results put Trump's job rating at 39 percent approve and 58 percent disapprove. Read more here.

November 2-8, 2017 - SurveyMonkey's update of how Americans ascribe various personal characteristics and qualities to President Trump found his scores declining across the board, though declines were greatest on "can get things done” and “keeps his promises.” The week's results also put Trump's job rating at 41 percent approve, 57 percent disapprove. Read more here.

September 8-14, 2017 - President Donald Trump’s job approval rating inched higher — to 42 percent approve, 55 percent disapprove — in a week dominated by coverage of Hurricane Irma and his apparent willingness to make deals with Democrats on the budget and immigration. Trump also garnered a net positive rating for his response to Hurricane Irma, an unusual occurrence for a high profile story during the first eight months of the Trump presidency. Read more here.